SpaceX launches Israeli lander towards the moon

23/02/2019|6min

Israel is set to become only the fourth nation to successfully land on the moon following a SpaceX rocket launch on Thursday night.
The robotic lander is the size of a washing machine and has been named 'Beresheet', which is Hebrew for the biblical phrase 'in the beginning'.
It was one of three cargo loads carried by the Falcon 9 rocket, the most successful rocket used by billionaire Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX.
In addition to the Israeli lunar lander, the Falcon 9 carried an Indonesian communications satellite, as well as an experimental satellite for the US Air Force.